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Top Sony DCR-SR42 Camcorder Reviews
CNET wrote a review on the
Sony DCR-SR42 and expressed some concern about video quality
but seemed to like the camcorder's ergonomics.
Sony DCR-SR42 News Release Summary:
LAS VEGAS(CES Booth #14200), Jan. 7, 2007 – The escalation of
sharing user-created content on the Internet has generated
demand for camcorders that offer simplified recording and
virtually effortless video sharing.
Sony, the U.S. market leader in the hard disk drive format, is
responding to this demand with five new HDD models for its 2007
Handycam® camcorder lineup. Pre-orders for these products will
begin tomorrow at www.sonystyle.com/handycam.
“The long recording times of our hard disk drive camcorders are
designed to capture life’s unscripted times, beyond school plays
and music recitals,” said Linda Vuolo, director of marketing for
camcorder products at Sony Electronics. “Because you never know
where life will take you, using an camcorder that records to a
hard drive means you have hours of recording capacity to capture
those moments.”
Sony’s fifth new HDD camcorder, the DCR-SR42 model, offers an
40X optical zoom to capture the action up close, even if you’re
far away. It has a 30GB hard drive and will be available for
about $600.
Hard Drive, Easy to Like
Sony’s new HDD camcorders are capable of low-light video
recording with the auto slow shutter functionality, providing a
range of two-to-five-lux performance to guarantee brighter video
in dim environments. Each model has a Memory Stick® Duo media
slot to facilitate still image capture.
There is also a full line of camcorder accessories available,
including lights, lenses, microphones, InfoLithium® batteries,
chargers and cables.
Record and Protect
To protect hours of recorded video on the hard disk drive, Sony
makes its hard drive camcorders with the HDD Smart Protection
System to reduce the likelihood of data loss in the event the
camera is dropped or mishandled.
The 3G sensor detects a sudden acceleration, caused by a fall,
and instantly lifts the writer heads from the hard drive,
preventing damage from impact. If there is a drop or fall while
the camcorder is recording, the camcorder is designed to buffer
the video stream until the drive is stable and operational again
before writing the stored data to disk. Sony’s HDD Handycam
models also include physical shock absorbers to protect the hard
disk drive.
Sharing Kept Simple
All of the new HDD camcorders include a Handycam® Station that
can connect the camcorder to a personal computer, television set
or a DVDirect® DVD recorder with the supplied USB and AV cables.
The Handycam Station features a One Touch Disc Burn button to
automatically burn video to a DVD disc via a PC or without a PC
when attached to a DVDirect recorder. In either case, the
recorder can automatically detect the camcorder’s newest content
and seamlessly burn the footage to a blank DVD, eliminating the
need to cue the new recordings.
The new camcorders are also packaged with DVD authoring software
to edit video once downloaded to a PC.
All of them will be available online at sonystyle.com, as well
as at Sony Style® retail stores and authorized dealers
nationwide beginning in March.
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